Please help me plan

[substitute]

My career in Unix system administration is floundering. I need career advice, O Group Mind.

[Poll #417645]

Comments

[trinnit.livejournal.com]

The school thing sounds like "Go Full time and get another degree", which I don't think will achieve what you want.

Moving to a new city sounds too much like running from your problems.

Learning a new skill (Oracle, Woodcarving?) seems to be the way to go.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Rotting away in academia works for me! Also, office supplies are copious, and of a different variety.

A.

[fg.livejournal.com]

don't be a dba.

dba's, man. seriously.

[halfjack.livejournal.com]

Water towers are a little prosaic for this. I think clock towers are iconic though.

[scromp.livejournal.com]

DBAs get a bad rep, because most of them are retards. A *good* DBA is a beautiful thing. They also get paid pretty well.

Oracle seems to be a real pain in the ass, though, so potentially yeah on the bitter angle with that. Just talk to mike about it sometime and watch him stew in his own juices.

[oohahh.livejournal.com]

I'd assume bitter because it's boring. Once you've redesigned all of the company's databases, where's the room for creativity?

[scromp.livejournal.com]

Well, that's kind of the case with corporate everything..

SURFACE-TO-AIRWAIDAMINNITLEMMETHINK....

[gcrumb.livejournal.com]

Get out of town, play for bit with people who understand what this stuff is for:

http://www.apnic.net/info/jobs/sys.html

[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

Random new city sounds like a bad idea. Unless it's Vancouver, which is not too far from California, and you have friends here.

I vote for exciting new career. Does it have to be Oracle though?